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IPPS
1993
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
"Unstable Threads" Kernel Interface for Minimizing the Overhead of Thread Switching
The performance of threads is limited primarily by the overhead of two kinds of switching: vertical switching (user/kernel domain switching) and horizontal switching (context swit...
Shigekazu Inohara, Kazuhiko Kato, Takashi Masuda
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
15 years 6 months ago
OPTNET: A Cost-effective Optical Network for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the OPTNET, a novel optical network and associated coherence protocol for scalable multiprocessors. The network divides its channels into broadcast and po...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
119
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USENIX
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox
115
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FAST
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Block-Level Security for Network-Attached Disks
We propose a practical and efficient method for adding security to network-attached disks (NADs). In contrast to previous work, our design requires no changes to the data layout ...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Minwen Ji, Mark Lillibrid...
208
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 2 months ago
OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...